Kategorie: Leadership & Coaching
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Excellence Takes Brain
Peters, Thomas J., and Robert H. Waterman Jr. (1982). In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies, 29. Story behind the Passage My best friend is in Japan right now. Getting to know a new culture and learning a new language is not that easy in the middle of a pandemic while wearing a…
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My Story As A Bystander
Drucker, Peter F. (1994). Adventures of a Bystander, 81. Story behind the Passage Peter Drucker is my hero. I told you before when I discussed a passage from one of his other books (“Management by Objectives”). Do we need heroes? Sure! We all do. Humans love heroes. From childhood onwards, we keep looking for heroes….
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Patience The Art Of Standing Still
Carlson, Richard (1997). Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking over your Life, 39. Story behind the Passage Today, I almost finished writing my first short book on horseback riding. Most of it is not about horses but about humans — in this case me. When…
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What Is Academia Don T Ask The Dumbest Generation
Bauerlein, Mark (2009). The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, 212. Story behind the Passage “Oh, could you please be a little less academic about this?” Have you ever heard this sentence in response to something you said or presented? If yes, you are probably above 30 and graduated…
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How Much Personal Diversity Is Too Much
Cox, Taylor, Jr. (1993). Cultural Diversity in Organizations: Theory, Research, and Practice, 11. Story behind the Passage A few years ago, it must have been in 2015, I gave a talk about diversity management in front of an academic association of cultural and literary studies scholars. To make a long story short: They ripped me…
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Tupperware S Brownie Wise Erasing History
Mason, Fergus (2014). Brownie Wise: Tupperware Queen, 85. Story behind the Passage This morning I wanted to write a text about an interview that I had conducted almost a year ago with a medium-sized industrial company. The business has continuously expanded since its founding almost 150 years ago. I had done the interview with the two…
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Saying No To The Mba Bubble
Zanetti, Mariana (2013). The MBA Bubble: Why Getting an MBA Is a Bad Idea, 140. Story behind the Passage What does it take to say “no” to something? It is just a word, you think? Why would it be difficult? Well, ask yourself right now when someone asked you to take a new job/role with more…
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Special The Myth Of The Professorship As A Calling And How You Can Become Who You Really
# 22 SPECIAL (Part 1): The Myth of the Professorship as a “Calling“ and How You Can Become Who You Really Are My e-mail to PhD candidates, 09/17/2020 Why “Special”? Today is a special blogging day as you can already see in the headline. I have been blogging every day for three weeks now and I…
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Special Part 2 The Myth Of The Professorship As A Calling And How You Can Become Who You
# 23 SPECIAL (Part 2): The Myth of the Professorship as a “Calling“ and How You Can Become Who You Really Are Urban Dictionary CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY (Read Part 1) What is a real mission? As you can see above, the concept of “mission” is used for businesses as well, including startups. In the following, I…
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Experience Is
Blanchard, Ken, William Oncken, Jr., and Hal Burrows (2004, fourth ed.): The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey, 50. Story behind the Passage Who would have thought that I can choose a passage that is so brief? Given that all my previous choices were much longer, this is a welcome exception. As you will see, however,…